I came across a zenity search script meant for Thunar custom actions, I have modified it for yad and changed some of the code so it now works as it supposed to.

I won't make a pet of it, as it won't uninstall correctly, maybe someone will find some use for it.

It is a basic search, type in the name click ok, then double click the result to open the containing directory.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#search-for-files

maxresults=500

window_icon="mini-zoom"

# this script will work for any environment that has bash and yad, so the filemanager is entirely down to you! you can add extra arguments to the string as long as the last argument is the path of the folder you open
filemanager="rox"